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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A long-time senior Israeli government official and Netanyahu/Liduk adviser, Jordana Cutler, is now the chief of Facebook's US censorship unit on Israel and Palestine.

She repeatedly and aggressively uses that position to demand censorship of Israel critics:

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

NEW: I spent months tracking every single dollar AIPAC spent this year. This investigation paints a picture of just how much the pro-Israel lobbying group has reshaped elections after starting to spend directly on candidates just 2 years ago 🧵 https://t.co/7cbJp8bIbx

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Israel's Suicide

By the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza — Israel is talking about months of warfare that will continue at least until the end of this year — it will have signed its own death sentence. Its facade of civility, its supposed vaunted respect for the rule of law and democracy, its mythical story of the courageous Israeli military and miraculous birth of the Jewish nation – which it successfully sold to its western audiences – will lie in ash heaps. Israel’s social capital will be spent. It will be revealed as the ugly, repressive, hate-filled apartheid regime it always has been, alienating younger generations of American Jews. Its patron, the United States, as new generations come into power, will distance itself from Israel. Its popular support will come from reactionary Zionists and America’s Christianized fascists who see Israel’s domination of ancient Biblical land as a harbinger of the Second Coming and in its subjugation of Arabs a kindred racism and celebration of white supremacy...

Nations need more than force to survive. They need a mystique. This mystique provides purpose, civility and even nobility to inspire citizens to sacrifice for the nation. The mystique offers hope for the future. It provides meaning. It provides national identity.

When mystiques implode, when they are exposed as lies, a central foundation of state power collapses. I reported on the death of the communist mystiques in 1989 during the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The police and the military decided there was nothing left to defend. Israel’s decay will engender the same lassitude and apathy. It will not be able to recruit Indigenous collaborators, such as Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority — reviled by most Palestinians — to do the bidding of the colonizers.

All Israel has left is escalating savagery, including torture and lethal violence against unarmed civilians, which accelerates the decline. This wholesale violence works in the short term, as it did in the war waged by the French in Algeria, the Dirty War waged by Argentina’s military dictatorship, the British occupation of India, Egypt, Kenya and Northern Ireland and the American occupations of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. But in the long term, it is suicidal.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

The other platforms accepted that deal.

𝕏 did not.

[Christina Boutrup @ChBoutrup]

“Jordskælv” på aktiemarkedet i Hongkong i dag pga ejendomsudvikleren Evergrande, der er tæt på kollaps! Alle frygter, hvad der sker på onsdag, når det kinesiske aktiemarked åbner efter Moon Festival 😱 #dkfinans #dkbiz

[Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

Tom Fowdy wonders why West is “up in arms” even though “Muslim states have positively embraced China's vocational camps in Xinjiang and applauded China's deradicalization and reintegration plans for its Uighur community.” https://t.co/0nAJOu8FLs

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch came amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings in Seoul and Tokyo. Seoul quickly followed up with its own SLBM test.
https://t.co/T9PLyW4hfm

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

In a year marked by defaults, the potential collapse of China’s second largest property developer offers insight into Beijing’s changing attitude on bailouts and financial risk.
https://t.co/8A9UQ1CWfF

[Frederik @qnadane]

@carsten1960 https://t.co/k81WETD0V6
Et lille indspark til dit indlæg.

[Philip Róin @brandhane]

Vent til @PernilleVermund finder ud af, hvor sølvpapirshattene produceres

[Frederik @qnadane]

"Klimainitiativer er super, så længe de ikke koster velfærd, siger den socialdemokratiske regering. De må heller ikke hæmme væksten, tilføjer oppositionen. Eller koste konkurrencekraft og arbejdspladser, supplerer erhvervsliv og fagbevægelse." https://t.co/oXnuvpjZa5

[Frederik @qnadane]

@carsten1960 🤣😭

[DØRs sekretariat @DORsSekretariat]

#vismænd’s efterårsrapport om #dkøko #dkpol og #corona er netop offentliggjort. Hovedkonklusionerne kan ses her: https://t.co/ffC0TCm1Co

[Philip Róin @brandhane]

I Beijing vil det her blot bekræfte deres opfattelse af at verdens demokratier i sidste ende blot er Washingtons' vasalstater

[Eva Dou @evadou]

The Chinese real-estate tycoon who criticized Xi's handling of the pandemic earlier this yr has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for graft. Ren Zhiqiang had called Xi a "clown with no clothes" in a lengthy essay in February. https://t.co/2uD7YwdaHD

[Frederik @qnadane]

"Former Iraqi prime minister, described Sino-Iraqi relations as poised for a “quantum leap” and his electricity minister wrote “China is our primary option as a strategic partner in the long run.”"

https://t.co/aLlvKmjT19

[Philip Róin @brandhane]

Indre Mongoliet og dets befolkning som de næste, der skal kaste deres kultur af sig og blive han-kinesere? Massive civil disobedience breaks out, tension rises https://t.co/g4vYf0Tw69

[Asger Ladefoged @AsgerLadefoged]

Det her skete i går. Slag i hovedet, spark i ryggen og et konfiskeret SD-kort. Det er fuldstændig vanvittigt, hvad der sker i Hviderusland i disse dage. Heldigvis er internettet åbnet op igen, så flere øjne forhåbenligt kan få syn for sagen.

[Frederik @qnadane]

https://t.co/7yhgphkjbp

[Frederik @qnadane]

https://t.co/nJVXiQ4Cp8